Bucky Barnes Is NOT The Winter Soldier Anymore?
#TFATWS creator Malcom Spellman says Bucky is not the #WinterSoldier anymore.
"He's now free to become something amazing."https://t.co/RpQXyVlnMN pic.twitter.com/Z5JAtvSLSt
- BD (@BrandonDavisBD) April 28, 2021
So is Bucky Barnes still 'The Winter Soldier' or not? Comicbook's Brandon Davis sat down with Malcom Spellman, head writer and creator of Marvel's 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier', to discuss how Bucky views this name by the end of the series finale. Spellman had this to say:
"I hope people will forget that end title card as being an indicator of a commitment from Marvel. I think he has slayed that dragon, personally, and I don't think I'll be in trouble for that. So when Bucky enters the series, he's never ever shaken what he believes, which is, 'I remember everyone, murders, which means that part of me was there, which means a part of the Winter Soldier is me.' And if even a fraction of Winter Soldier is you, you are an awful person. From the start of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Sebastan Stan's Bucky Barnes was trying to make amends for his actions. Although those events were out of his control, Bucky remembers all of it and had been carrying the guilt with him. That was Bucky's identity coming in here, loaded with trauma on top of the fact that he doesn't feel like a citizen of any era. We took him on this journey of trying to find ways to redeem himself and learning that avenging right is not the same thing as redemption. It is not the same thing as sort of a making amends or whatever, right?"
"I think Bucky enters this thing truly believing he is kind of the Winter Soldier no matter what anyone says. By the end, he has the moment with the old man, but more importantly, nobody has caught this... I've been saying it all day. In the scene with the Flag-Smashers in Episode 6, when one of those people gets out of that van and thanks Bucky, that's his first time being a hero. So by the end of this series, Bucky is emerging as having shed the burden of the Winter Soldier. He has found a new family, ironically, it's a Black family in Louisiana. And he has tasted being a hero for the first time. And I think he's now free to become something amazing."
Does this allude to Bucky possibly being called by a new name? Personally, I think so.
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